[OSM-talk] Cycle route planning using OSM

[Tom Chance]

Ahoy,

> Andy Allan schrieb:
>> On 4/3/07, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
>>> So, one day it would be excellent to have an "Outdoor map" style of
>>> cartography offered on the main OSM slippy map, as a third alternative
>>> to Mapnik (which is evolving along the lines of road-atlas/streetmap
>>> cartography) and Osmarender. Freemap may well be a good starting point.
>>
>> That's exactly what I'm hoping for too. I've considered making my own
>> "cycling" tileset (motorways as thin grey lines, cycle routes in bold
>> etc), but that's more-or-less on hold whilst I do more of the
>> base-mapping round my area. I think it'll be easier for me to put the
>> NCN (and London cycle network) details into OSM after an area has been
>> comprehensively base-mapped.
>
> This sounds just like a different ruleset for osmarender, which will
> soon, throught tiles at home support different rendering styles, or layers
> if you will[1]. the first layer different from the "normal" osmarender
> layer is planned to be a maplint[2] layer, but such a "Bike and Hike"
> layer would be as easy as writing an osmarender ruleset for it when the
> layering support has been introduced into tiles at home.

That would be a nice first step, yes - just render the existing elements
differently to emphasise those of interest to pedestrians, cyclists, etc.
This seems to be half of the approach that Freemap is taking.

The other side of the coin is thinking through the additional data you'd
need to provide really useful / meaningful maps, and working on tools to
make it easier to enter and manage this data, which I addressed in my
other email ("is there much traffic" etc.)

Regards,
Tom